Hoops

Major Jackson holds the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He edits poetry for Harvard Review. He studied accounting at Temple University before earning an MFA at the University of Oregon. Leaving Saturn, his first book, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hoops followed from Norton, and Razzle Dazzle gathers new and selected poems from 2002 to 2022. He won a Whiting Award in 2003 and held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013, and edited The Best American Poetry 2019.